Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM Your email has been sent AWS jargon Examine the original EC2 machine. Take a snapshot and make a new AMI Launch a new instance Clean up Nick ...

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These ...

At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a generalized EC2 instance designed for ...